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The paper deals with key analytical concepts applied in the study of local rural development from the perspective of the local community. It defines the different approaches to study of local development and describes the methodological framework developed by the Dutch anthropologist Norman Long – an actor-oriented approach. Within this methodological framework it describes theoretical and analytical categories as agency, life worlds and multiple realities. The overview study further uses the example of the concept of symbolic boundaries to points out how their constructs affects interactions and relationships between the actors. It also points out the concept of domains and arenas where social interfaces and intersect of different actor’s life worlds takes place.